My research centers on the social processes that make up people. I ask questions like: How are persons formed as caregivers, empathetic professionals, brain implant recipients, and subjects of genomic medicine, among other biomedical and sociocultural processes?
A more recent line of research with collaborators uncovers the workings of antiblackness within the context of Christian higher education, taking Abilene Christian University as a case study. Another collaborative project develops a pragmatist version of interactionist theory.
Books and Edited Volumes
Special Issue of Sociological Perspectives. 2018. “On Ethnography.” Co-edited with Black Hawk Hancock.
Articles in Refereed Journals
Coley, Jonathan S., Daniel R. Morrison, Lexie L. Taylor, Jessica L. Schachle-Gordon, and Gabby Gomez. Forthcoming. “Gendered Organizations as Heterosexualized Organizations: The Case of Housing, Roommate, and Visitation Policies at Christian Colleges and Universities.” Accepted for Publication at Socius.
Clifford Simplican, Stacy A., Ross D. Graham, Sarah V. Suiter, and Daniel R. Morrison. 2023. “Why Care for Others?: How Bill Wilson Made Responsibility to Care a Matter of Life and Death in Alcoholics Anonymous.” Ethics and Social Welfare 17(1): 51-66.
Ruiz-Junco, Natalia and Daniel R. Morrison. 2019. “Empathy as Care: The Model of Palliative Medicine.” Society 56(2):158-165.
Hancock, Black Hawk and Daniel R. Morrison. 2018. “The Ethnographer’s Circle: Institutionalizing Ethnography in the Pacific Sociological Association.” Sociological Perspectives 61(2):195-206.
Grzanka, Patrick R. and Daniel R. Morrison. 2017. "Post-Racial Fantasies and the Reproduction of Scientific Racism." American Journal of Bioethics. Available here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15265161.2017.1353179
Morrison, Daniel R. 2017. "The Missing Empirical Studies of DBS Recipients' Views of Self." American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 8(2):126-128.
Hancock, Black Hawk and Daniel R. Morrison. 2016. "Beyond The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying: A Theoretical and Methodological Intervention into the Sociology of Brain Implant Surgery." Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. 41(6):659-678.
Kyle B. Brothers, Matthew J. Westbrook, M. Frances Wright, John A. Myers, Daniel R. Morrison, Jennifer L. Madison, Jill M. Pulley, Ellen Wright Clayton. 2013. “Patient Awareness and Approval for an Opt-Out Genomic Biorepository.” Personalized Medicine. 10:349-359.
Morrison, Daniel R. and Monica J. Casper. 2012. "Intersections of Disability and Trauma studies: Lessons from TBI and Obstetric Fistula." Disability Studies Quarterly. 32:2.
Morrison, Daniel R. and Larry W. Isaac. 2012. “Insurgent Images: Genre Selection and Visual Frame Amplification in IWW Cartoon Art." Social Movement Studies. 11:61-78.
Brothers, Kyle B., Daniel R. Morrison and Ellen W. Clayton. 2011. "Two Large-Scale Surveys on Community Attitudes Toward an Opt-Out Biobank." American Journal of Medical Genetics. 155A: 2982-2990.
Bishop, Jeffrey and Daniel R. Morrison. 2011. “The Roman Catholic Church, Biopolitics, and the Vegetative State.” Christian Bioethics. 17:165-184.
Morrison, Daniel R. and Mark J. Bliton. 2011. “Exploring Layers of Meaning with Deep Brain Stimulation Patients.” American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 2:26-28.
Morrison, Daniel R. and Ellen Wright Clayton. 2011. "False Positive Screening Results Are Not Always Benign." Public Health Genomics. 14: 173-177.
Casper, Monica J. and Daniel R. Morrison. 2010. “Medical Sociology and Technology: Critical Engagements.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 51:S120-S132.
Book Chapters
Ruiz-Junco, Natalia, Daniel R. Morrison, and Patrick McGinty. Forthcoming. “Interactionism and Methodological Individualism: Affinities and Critical Issues.” Handbook of Methodological Individualism. Edited by Nathalie Bulle and Francesco Di Iorio. Palgrave Macmillan.
Casper, Stephen T., Kathleen E. Bachynski, Michael E. Buckland, Don Comrie, Sam Gandy, Judith Gates, Daniel S. Goldberg, Kathryn Henne, Karen Hind, Daniel Morrison, Francisco Ortega, Alan J. Pearce, Sean Philpott-Jones, Elizabeth Sandel, Ted Tatos, Sally Tucker, and Adam M. Finkel. 2021. “Toward Complete, Candid, and Unbiased International Consensus Statements on Concussion in Sport”. Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics 49(3):372-377. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-law-medicine-and-ethics/article/toward-complete-candid-and-unbiased-international-consensus-statements-on-concussion-in-sport/54233A9E24B851E9288AEFD03E1C58CE
Morrison, Daniel R. 2019. “Football Helmet Safety and the Veil of Standards.” Pp. 59-77 in Sociocultural Examinations of Sports Concussions, edited by Matt Ventresca and Mary G. McDonald. New York: Routledge.
Blanco, Luisa, Lila Carlsen, Daniel R. Morrison, George Carlsen, Ashley Chaparro, and Erick Molina. 2018. “Precarious Paradise: The Financial Well-Being of Hispanic Immigrant Day Laborers in Malibu.” in Latinos in the 21st Century: Their Voices and Lived Experiences. Nova Science.
Morrison, Daniel R. and Monica J. Casper. 2017. "Gender, Violence, and Brain Injury In and Out of the NFL: What Counts As Harm?" in Football, Culture, and Power edited by David J. Leonard, Kimberly B. George, and Wade Davis. Routledge. Find a copy here.
Book Reviews
Morrison, Daniel R. Forthcoming. Review of Can We Unlearn Racism?: What South Africa Teaches Us About Whiteness by Jacob R. Boersema. Sociology of Race & Ethnicity.
Morrison, Daniel R. 2023. Review of Managing Medical Authority: How Doctors Compete for Status and Create Knowledge” by Daniel A. Menchik. Contemporary Sociology. 52(3): 261–263. https://doi.org/10.1177/00943061231172096w
Morrison, Daniel R. 2020. Review of Forgotten Founders and Other Neglected Social Theorists edited by Christopher T. Conner, Nicholas M. Baxter, and David R. Dickens. Teaching Sociology. 48(4): 357-360. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0092055X20959842
Morrison, Daniel R. 2020. Review of Diversity Regimes: Why Talk is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequities at Universities” by James M. Thomas. Ethnic and Racial Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2020.1797137
Morrison, Daniel R. 2016. Review of Situational Analysis in Practice: Mapping Research with Grounded Theory by Adele Clarke, Carrie Friese, and Rachel Washburn. Symbolic Interaction. 39(3):519-521.
Morrison, Daniel R. 2016. Review of Imperial Technoscience: Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India by Amit Prasad. Contemporary Sociology. 45(5):646-647.
Morrison, Daniel R. 2014. Review of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier by Ruha Benjamin. American Journal of Sociology. 119(6):1811-1813.